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    "The Purloined Letter" is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe. It is the third of his three detective stories featuring the fictional C....
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    and "The Purloined Letter" (1844). Dupin is not a professional detective and his motivations for solving the mysteries change throughout the three stories...
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    himself reappears in "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt" and "The Purloined Letter". The unnamed narrator opens with a lengthy commentary on the nature and practice...
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  • structures, including the defeated sleuth, the purloined letter, and the missing person. The first theme of the defeated sleuth focuses on the armchair detective...
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    Procrustes (redirect from The Stretcher)
    influential crime story "The Purloined Letter" (1844), the private detective Dupin uses the metaphor of a Procrustean bed to describe the Parisian police's overly...
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  • Fleetwood Lawton, the British are a cinch to reinstate the confiscatory ad valorem tax. Chesterton Radio (August 16, 2020). "The Purloined Letter - Edgar Allen...
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    the film's core mystery, and the discussion of Edgar Allan Poe's written works (particularly "The Purloined Letter") in the Jean-Luc Godard film Band of...
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    Detective fiction (category Commons category link is defined as the pagename)
    followed with further Auguste Dupin tales: "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt" in 1842 and "The Purloined Letter" in 1844. Poe referred to his stories as "tales...
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  • into the Maelström" "The Pit and the Pendulum" "The Purloined Letter" "Metzengerstein" "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" "The Tell-Tale Heart" "The Black...
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  • Derrida over the interpretation of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Purloined Letter"). 'Lacan's theories have encouraged a criticism which focuses not on the author...
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  • analyst from retrogressing to the ideological position of the master's discourse (i.e., King in The Purloined Letter). The crucial difficulty in self-analysis...
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    Sons of Pelops, 88: Atreus Aeschylus' Agamemnon Edgar Allan Poe, The Purloined Letter, 140 Milton, Paradise Lost, book 10, lines 687–691 Child cannibalism...
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  • thinks he is and tries to prove it. 22 22 "The Pawloined Paper" "The Purloined Letter" C. Auguste Dupin November 7, 1995 (1995-11-07) 114 Joe tries to get...
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  • volée", The Purloined Letter, Lacan states that "the unconscious is the discourse of the Other," meaning that "one should see in the unconscious the effects...
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    story is a murder, "The Cask of Amontillado" is not a tale of detection like "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" or "The Purloined Letter"; there is no investigation...
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    and Maria Montez. Novels portal C. Auguste Dupin "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" "The Purloined Letter" Silverman 1991, p. 171 Silverman 1991, p. 205 Stashower...
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    the story is considered one of Poe's early examples of science fiction. Ratiocination (see also "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt", "The Purloined Letter"...
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  • Jacques Lacan (category Academic staff of the École Normale Supérieure)
    Seuil, 1994). Lacan, J., "Seminar on 'The Purloined Letter'" in Écrits. Lacan, J., "The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious" in Écrits and Seminar V:...
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    mysteries "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841) (which introduced the famous locked-room paradigm), "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt" (1842) and "The Purloined Letter"...
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    "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" – one of the first detective stories "The Purloined Letter" – one of the first detective stories Nathaniel Hawthorne...
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  • carries a backpack The fallacy of the undistributed middle is referenced in Edgar Allan Poe's detective story The Purloined Letter: This functionary,...
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    Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe (category Child marriage in the United States)
    citing a fervent love letter to argue that Poe "loved his little cousin not only with the affection of a brother, but also with the passionate devotion...
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    Portrait" "The Pit and the Pendulum" "The Premature Burial" "The Purloined Letter" "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether" "The Tell-Tale Heart"...
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    inspired by the infamous Panama scandals of 1892 and 1893. The novel borrows from Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Purloined Letter" the idea of hiding...
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  • "confrontation of the subject beyond the ego with the Id, the quod (what-is-it?) which seeks to come into being in analysis." "The purloined letter is synonymous...
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    The works of American author Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) include many poems, short stories, and one novel. His fiction spans...
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    appeared in works such as "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841), "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt" (1842), and "The Purloined Letter" (1844). With his Dupin...
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    other. The first season of the series was The WB's most successful program at the time, but the show was cancelled after two seasons. Set in the southern...
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    may have been inspired by the Prefect of Police known only as "G—" in Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Purloined Letter" (1845). Despite having an...
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    F for Fake (category Documentary films about the visual arts)
    Archived from the original on 8 March 2016. Retrieved 27 April 2014. Rosenbaum, Jonathan (25 April 2005). "Orson Welles's Purloined Letter: F For Fake"...
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